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America's musical stage : two hundred years of musical theatre

Mates shows the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. He deals sensitively with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art and also looks at critical reactions to popular theatrical forms of musical entertainment.
Musical Score, Undefined, ©1985
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., ©1985
xii, 252 pages : illustrations
9780313239489, 0313239487
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